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The latest Astra will be lighter and shorter than the current car but will have more room inside, Opel said in a statement on Monday. It will also have new infotainment and lighting technologies to help it compete better against rivals such as the Volkswagen Golf and Ford Focus.
"Our engineers developed it from the proverbial white sheet of paper," Opel CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann said in the statement. "Its dimensions are smaller but both spaciousness and comfort have been increased considerably."
Opel said the Astra is based on an all-new lightweight vehicle architecture that reduces its weight by between 120kg and 200kg depending on the model.
"Our engineers developed it from the proverbial white sheet of paper," Opel CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann said in the statement. "Its dimensions are smaller but both spaciousness and comfort have been increased considerably."
Opel said the Astra is based on an all-new lightweight vehicle architecture that reduces its weight by between 120kg and 200kg depending on the model.